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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Steven Connor says there's much more to ventriloquism than exchanging quips with a wooden dummy.  He tells Anne Strainchamps that a lot of this history has to do with the disembodied voice.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Sonu Shamdasani is a historian of psychology at University College, London, and editor of Carl Jung's "Red Book."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Susan Hirschmann is a legendary children's book editor and founder of Greenwillow Books.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Some of us think of dance as something best left to the professionals, people with years of training and technique. But when Sally Gross started dancing, she realized that she'd never master ballet or modern dance. So she made a whole new kind of dance...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Steve Earle has been Nashville’s bad boy for years. He talks about his controversial new album, “Jerusalem,”  and his opposition to war in Iraq.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

William Least Heat-Moon created a sensation with his book "Blue Highways." He's back now with "Roads to Quoz," about traveling along America's back roads. Moon talks with Anne Strainchamps about the trips that inspired the new book.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Scott Sandage tells Anne Strainchamps that the very meaning of failure has changed in American society over 200 years.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. She is dedicated to re-foresting Africa and talks with Steve Paulson about some of her Greenbelt Movement projects. Her memoir is called "Unbowed."

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